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From: "Walter Robin" <aborman at brightok.net>
To: <northern at ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: NR - Raffles
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:29:55 -0600
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Further research into the Attorney General Opinion section of the website
yields this:

Oklahoma courts have held that a lottery consists of three elements. These
elements are "prize," "valuable consideration," and
"chance."

Ld Walter Robin,
Seneschal, Mooneschadowe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Robin" <aborman at brightok.net>
To: <northern at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: NR - Drawing vs. Raffle


> The law does not seem to make that distinction, defining a lottery thus:
>
> "A lottery is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by
chance among persons who have paid...any valuable
> consideration for the chance of obtaining such property...upon any
...expectation that it is to be distributed...by ...chance,
> whether called a lottery, a raffle, or a gift enterprise, or by whatever
name the same may be known. "
>
> http://oklegal.onenet.net/oklegal-cgi/isearch  (Section 21-1051)
>
> When the United Way fund-raiser organizers at my workplace looked at this
several years ago, they determined that introducing an
> element of skill made it no longer a lottery...that is, you COULD run a
carnival game, where the prize was a ticket in a drawing.
>
> So they put up a dart board, and IF you hit it, you got a ticket for the
drawing in whichever area you hit....
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know if they consulted with a lawyer or the AG's
office, or what.
>
> Ld Walter Robin,
> Seneschal, Mooneschadowe
> http://plumes.org





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